Thanks for that link to the blackblaze reports, definitely good to have, I always assume that a drive can fail any moment anyways.
Starting to build a storage pool sounds like a fun project, do you have suggestions of some hardware to start with that could later be expanded?
I'm not sure if data redundancy is necessary for my use case, as I don't need to guarantee 24/7 accessibility.
Thanks for sharing that writeup, this is useful info for the building it myself route